354660 - please reword "use in total"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[timeless]

steps:
1. click 'my votes' https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user
2. click 'Help with voting.' https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting.html

actual results:
<p>Depending on how the administrator has configured the relevant product,
you may be able to vote for the same [% terms.bug %] more than one time. But 
remember, you only have so many votes to use in total! So, you can either vote 
a little for many [% terms.bugs %], or vote a lot for a few [% terms.bugs %].

I can't explain why i don't like use in total. All I know is that it strikes me as wrong. It might be ok in British English. I think it's probably idiomatic British English.

Warning to anyone trying to use google to investigate this: "use in total (noun){word}" will turn up millions of times, but that's because use in (adj)total (noun){word} is perfectly legal. the problem is that we're using: "use in (noun)total<full-stop>" here, and that's not something that is used.

Comment 1

[timeless]

Attachment: rewrite text

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 245842 [details] [diff] [review]
rewrite text

This text is much clearer now. r=LpSolit

Comment 3

[timeless]

Comment on attachment 245842 [details] [diff] [review]
rewrite text

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